FMMC: St. George's Chamber Series
Free
- Robyn Tessin, violin
- Taka Ariga, cello
- John Sutherland Earle, piano
- Bonnie Cohen, viola
- Jung-Yoon Lee, piano
- Makiko Taguchi, violin
- Albert Hunt, clarinet
- Ellen Hwangbo, piano
Amy Beach — Romance for violin and piano, Op. 23
Béla Bartók — Contrasts for violin, clarinet, and piano, Sz. 111, BB 116
About John Sutherland Earle, piano
John Sutherland Earle studied piano performance and chamber music at the Oberlin Conservatory, Stanford University, and the Vienna Hochschule fűr Musik. His principle teachers were John Dupaquier, Peter Takacs, Adolph Baller, Haggai Niv, and Hans Petermandl; he also had coaching and master courses with John Perry, Gennady Kleyman, Alexander Lipsky, Jorge Bolet, Garrick Ohlsson, and Oleg Maisenberg. A National Merit and Fulbright Scholar as well as prizewinner at the Pacific International, Carmel Music Society, Palo Alto Symphony, and Misbin Chamber Music Competitions, he participated twice in the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and he has given concerts in more than a dozen states of the US, several countries of Europe, and in Russia and Japan.
Since moving to the DC area in 2010, he has performed regularly with several groups including the IBIS Chamber Music Society, Rock Creek Chamber Players, Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic Association, Friday Morning Music Club, and members of the US Army and Air Force Orchestras. In a parallel life, John writes research papers for journals in economics and political science and teaches at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.